The Coalville Times (Coalville, Utah)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
816 issues from 1894 to 1912, published in Coalville, Utah, digitised for Chronicling America.
At the base of the high mountains in Utah’s Summit County, the settlement of Coalville (known originally as “Chalk Creek”) was founded as a farming town about forty-five miles east of Salt Lake City, where, it was said, wheat grew wild. The original settlers came in 1859–six families who spent their first year in the area living in a cluster of tents, but with the discovery of coal deposits in the surrounding hills, people began moving in, and the village quickly grew. Over the next 20 years, a series of mining ventures produced a wealth of “black gold” for Coalville and the surrounding towns, and by the mid-1870s a railroad was built to carry the valuable resource to Salt Lake City.
Beginning in the 1890s, Coalville saw a number of newspapers come and go. The first was the Coalville Chronicle, which began in 1892, published by E.E. Newell, who closed the paper after less than two years, abandoning his printing press as he skipped town, leaving behind a sizeable debt. A group of prominent Coalville citizens paid the Chronicle’s bills and hired a former staffer from the Salt Lake Tribune, Frank M. Pinneo, as the editor-in-chief of the newly organized Coalville Times.
Under Pinneo, the Times focused on local news and the often fickle mining economy. Published every Friday, the newspaper bore a masthead declaring itself “devoted to the interests of Summit and Morgan Counties.” Front page items often included “newsy notes gathered in by our alert correspondents,” such as the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Coalville, Utah, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress